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Man arrested in Japan over threatening U.S. embassy by phone

Xinhua, March 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

Japanese police arrested on Thursday a man living in Okinawa on suspicion of making bomb threat phone calls to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, local media reported.

Mitsuyoshi Kamiya, 52, has admitted to having made such phone calls three times, threatening to bomb the embassy and a U.S. military base in Japan's southern Okinawa prefecture, between March 5 and 14, Japan's Kyodo News quoted the Metropolitan Police Department as saying.

Local media reported on Tuesday that U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy received a number of death threats by phone by a male English speaker.

According to the reports, the U.S. Embassy located in Tokyo's Minato Ward fielded calls in February from a man speaking English who said he was going to kill Kennedy.

Alfred Magleby, the U.S. consul general in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, since 2012, also reportedly received a number of death threats by phone.

Kennedy is the daughter of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy who himself was famously assassinated in 1963. Kennedy, who arrived in Japan in 2013, is the first female to take the post of U.S. ambassador. Endi